Jin, Xin
Wang, Yujue
Zeng, Sixuan
Cai, Jiarui
Wang, Kerui
Ge, Qiaoyue
Zhang, Lu
Li, Xinxi
Zhang, Ling https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8343-2719
Tong, Yu
Luo, Xiaoli
Yang, Menghan
Zhang, Weidong
Yu, Chuan
Xiao, Chenghan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-1590
Liu, Zhenmi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-3607
Article History
Received: 19 January 2024
Revised: 31 October 2024
Accepted: 12 November 2024
First Online: 21 November 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study adheres to STROBE-MR Guidelines and each included GWAS has institutional review board approval and participant consent. The UK Biobank has ethics approval from the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee. Age-specific BMI GWAS received ethical approval from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Ethics and Law Committee and Local Research Ethics Committees, with consent under the Human Tissue Act (2004). MoBa’s study protocol was approved by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s administrative board, with data collection authorized by the Norwegian Data Protection Agency and The Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics (no. 2012/67). The Amsterdam Born Children and their Development- Genetic Enrichment (ABCD) study protocol received approval from the Dutch Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects, the medical ethics review committees of the hospitals involved, and the Amsterdam Municipality’s Registration Committee.